Hundreds of Armenian-Australians are gathering outside the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian and United States embassies in Canberra to protest Azerbaijan's military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenian-Australian community is calling on the United States and Russian governments to do more on the ground in Nagorno Karabakh as indigenous Armenians are pushed out from their ancestral homeland. The Armenian National Committee of Australia Chair Vache Kahramanian called on Australia to join its international allies in delivering urgent humanitarian assistance through the Red Cross. “Australia also needs to call out Azerbaijan for this aggression,” he told Sky News Australia. “It took far too long for Australia to raise its voice and today it needs to look at itself in the mirror as the bastion of a country who champions human rights around the world to also call out Azerbaijan for its ethnic cleansing of about 120,000 people in the 21st century.” Azerbaijan's government has rejected accusations of ethnic cleansing.
Hundreds of Armenian-Australians are gathering outside the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian and United States embassies in Canberra to protest Azerbaijan's military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian-Australian community is calling on the United States and Russian governments to do more on the ground in Nagorno Karabakh as indigenous Armenians are pushed out from their ancestral homeland. The Armenian National Committee of Australia Chair Vache Kahramanian called on Australia to join its international allies in delivering urgent humanitarian assistance through the Red Cross.“It took far too long for Australia to raise its voice and today it needs to look at itself in the mirror as the bastion of a country who champions human rights around the world to also call out Azerbaijan for its ethnic cleansing of about 120,000 people in the 21st century.
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